London Boroughs' Overage  

8.12.20

In 2016, 16 Inner London Boroughs including Camden were sent FOI requests to find out their experience of overage in contracts. The standard wording sent to them was -

" Please provide me with details of and the current status for all cases in the last 12 years where the Council has sold land to a private developer and included an Overage agreement under which the Council would share in any profit made by the developer. I would prefer your response to be by email".

Correspondence can be found on the sub-pages to this page.

Here is an attempt at a summary of the replies-

Refusal on grounds of the cost of researching the issue: 

• Camden

• Hammersmith and Fulham

• Kensington and Chelsea

• Lambeth

• Lewisham

• Wandsworth

Detailed response addressing the enquiry: 

• Barnet 

• Brent

• Greenwich

• Harringey

• Westminster 

• Southwark

• Tower Hamlets

Response, not detailed due to commercial confidentiality

• Hackney

No Overage clauses in contracts during that time: 

• City of London

• Islington